BoxWay Packaging Group, the innovative, customer-focussed, design-led corrugated cardboard packaging business, has today announced its total commitment to becoming verified Carbon Neutral by March this year and also to achievingNet Zerowithin the next twenty years, five years ahead of the UK’s 2050 target.
Innovative BoxWay Packaging Group Limited is steadfastly supporting measures to combatthe climate crisis and sustainability bypartnering with leading Carbon Accounting Consultants, Turning The Black Country Green (TTBCG), to evolve into a Carbon Neutral business within the next three months. Meanwhile, BoxWay is also undertakingto attain Net Zero by calculating its full 3 scope GHG emission footprint, then building a plan to reduce these emissions to achieve Net Zero by 2045.
Matthew Botting, Group Sales and Marketing Director, BoxWay Packaging Group, comments: “With the effects of climate change threatening every single living thing on planet earth, we are delighted to have started 2025 by committing one hundred per cent to reducingour impact on the climate crisis and become verified Carbon Neutral by 31 March 2025 and Net Zero by 2045, five years ahead of the UK backstop of 2050. We will undertake ISO14068-1 Carbon Neutral certification, meaning we will calculate all GHG emissions and mitigate them each year, to offer all our customers a ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT packaging solution.”
It is estimated that climate change claimed more than 11,500 lives and affected 148 million people in 2024, through droughts, floods, storms, heat waves & fires. This number is set to rise each year until everyone takes responsibility for their contribution to the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions and achieving Net Zero by 2050. Mr. Botting continues: “The GHG emission footprint will include all operational emissions, non-operational emissions, upstream & downstream supplychain emissions and cradle to grave emissions. Net Zero is not only a legal obligation but more importantly a moral obligation and one that we at BoxWay Packaging Group are embedding within our thinking and processes. The upshot? All our packaging solutions will be carbon neutral for all our customers!”
